Architecture Professor Gives Raymond Bowers Lecture

Architect and Delft University of Technology (TU Delft) professor Sevil Sariyildiz will give a free public lecture, “Design Computation for Sustainability,” at 6:00 p.m. on Monday, March 28, in the Palmer Lipcon Auditorium, Palmer Museum of Art, on the Penn State University Park campus. She will talk about the influences of information, communication, and knowledge technology (ICKT) and computation in architecture and design on global sustainability issues. Sariyildiz’s lecture is sponsored by the Stuckeman School of Architecture and Landscape Architecture’s Raymond A. Bowers Distinguished Lecture Series.

Sariyildiz is the chair and professor of technical design and informatics and head of the Building Technology Department at TU Delft, in the Netherlands.

A native of Turkey, Sariyildiz studied architecture and building technology in Istanbul and Darmstadt, Germany, and received her Ph.D. from TU Delft. She founded the Delft Women in Science network and the TULIP project for collaboration between Turkish technical universities and TU Delft.